August 2006 - Posts
A customer asked us how efficiently DFS Replication replicates changes made to Microsoft Windows Imaging Format (WIM) image files. (WIM images are created by ImageX, the disk imaging tool in Windows Vista.) It just so happens we tested this recently with
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One of my fellow bloggers, Keith Combs, has published a great screencast of a CompletePC Backup demo in Windows Vista. You can check out his blog post and screenpast on Keith Combs' Blahg . --Jill
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We've posted the transcript for our Windows Vista File Backup chat as an article on this blog. Enjoy! --Jill
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Several customers have asked us recently whether DFS Replication traffic can be routed through a private network on multi-homed servers. Although DFS Replication does not provide any configuration options for this, one of our DFS Replication gurus, Richard
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[Updated 11/27/06 to fix broken links] If you'd like to use the DFSR WMI provider to configure and monitor DFS Replication, take a look at the sample scripts up on the Windows SDK website . The DFSR WMI classes are documented here . --Jill
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You can view it here: Disk and Volume Management chat trancript Enjoy! --Jill
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Our team has been hosting a series of Q&A "chats" for the features we own in Windows Vista. Though attendance is limited to Vista beta testers, we're posting the chat transcripts as articles for everyone to view. I've just added the following transcripts:
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This is a common topic in the DFS_FRS newsgroup . Customers will describe how some users are unexpectedly denied access to targets in the namespace whereas other users can access the targets without problems. Customers also ask whether there are DFS permissions
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If you’ve used the Distributed File System snap-in in Windows Server 2003, you might’ve seen the checkbox called “Publish this root in Active Directory.” You might’ve even checked it and wondered what benefits it provides. Does it somehow make a namespace
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A common question among customers using the Distributed File System snap-in in Windows Server 2003 is how to create a namespace more than two levels deep. For example, a customer in the DFS_FRS newsgroup was frustrated because he knew how to create a
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This came up in the DFS_FRS newsgroup recently. A customer reported that the health report showed “Report Loading, Please wait...” but never generated. Here are the instructions for fixing this. 1. Go to Add / Remove Programs > Add / Remove Windows
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